Scratch a photojournalist and you will find a reporter who wields a camera instead of a typewriter. Eternity in a moment, information plus aesthetics. These are the obsessions, and in time of war, the obsessions are intensified. But suppose they gave a war and no photojournalists were invited; a war in which the only war pictures may be some chance shots caught by amateurs?
Such has been the Falklands situation, where the British and Argentine military authorities, not to mention the remote location of the islands, have made the job of the world's photojournalists...
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